Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Angry reaction quickly spread to Cairo and Alexandria, forcing authorities to close down Egypt's six universities and 14 other schools of higher education. In the capital, 1,000 Cairo University students were driven back when they armed themselves with bricks and palm branches and charged police barricades blocking their school. When 50 took refuge in the Mosque of Manial, horrified worshipers gasped as the cops raced inside without taking off their boots and frog-marched captives off to jail...
EVERYBODY in this shabby capital knows about it, but few will talk. The unmarked planes, however, are there for all to see: four DC-4s, three DC-3s and a single Constellation, parked on the palm-lined seaside tarmac. Patient research shows that the aircraft have varied registration-French, German, Belgian, Zambian, Biafran and Gabonese. Each afternoon, three or four planes taxi to the nearby military airfield for loading, then take off for Biafra at 6 p.m. sharp. They return around midnight, after the 900-mile round trip. Just as predictable as the flights is the black Citroen, owned...
...have a set in his Manhattan co-op apartment or his mountain lodge in Switzerland. There is one in his beach house on Long Island, but the area is so remote that "you can't get anything." He does keep a working set at his desert retreat in Palm Springs, but he says, "I never find anything on it." He is contemptuous of adventure programs ("Fictionalized crime doesn't interest me") but thinks that TV violence is harmless: "Crime comes from people with a caged-up obsession, something locked up inside. Reading a dirty book doesn...
...like the city government or the way things are run. The whole city needs cleaning up." So Frank is clearing out. "I haven't got too many years of singing left and I have to take care of myself." That will include stops at the spread in Palm Springs, the yacht, homes in London, Acapulco, Manhattan and, best of all, San Francisco. "Now there's a grownup, swinging town...
Divorced. Troy Donahue, 32, idol of the race-you-to-the-beach-house-for-a-Pepsi set (A Summer Place, Palm Springs Weekend); by Starlet Valerie Allen, 28, on grounds of mental cruelty (Val said he was always late to dinner); after two years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...